AMD A6-6400K vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points

6% slightly better overall score

763 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points

20% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

581 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

559 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points

17.61 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points

1113 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points

514 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points

1121 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points

495 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089

1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A6-6400K vs FX-9800P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-6400K is faster than the FX-9800P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-9800P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A6-6400K that has 1 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. Our comparison shows that the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9800P. The info from our database shows that the FX-9800P has more L2 cache than the A6-6400K

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.